Francisco de Goya / Giant / by 1818

Francisco de Goya
Giant
by 1818
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Creator Name: Goya y Lucientes, Francisco José de
Creator Nationality: European; Iberian; Spanish
Creator Role: Artist
Creator Dates/Places: Spanish, 1746-1828
Creator Name-CRT: Francisco de Goya
Title: Giant
View: Full View
Creation Start Date: 1818
Creation End Date: 1818
Creation Date: by 1818
Object Type: Prints
Materials and Techniques: Burnished aquatint; first state
Dimensions: Sheet: 11 1/4 x 8 1/4 in. (28.5 x 21.01cm)
AMICA Contributor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Owner Location: New York, New York, USA
ID Number: 35.42
Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935
Rights: http://www.metmuseum.org/
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Evoking that uneasiness that wells up in us at the first thought of some unfathomable power, Goya's 'Giant' is staggering. This rarity ranks with works by Dürer and Rembrandt as one of the most impressive images ever printed from a copperplate.

Like a mezzotint engraver, Goya proceeded to scrape highlights into metal previously roughened with grainy aquatint. Thus he sculpted this gargantuan colossus-Prometheus, Zeus, god of war-or what you will, out of darkness. Everything that held Goya in awe seems to have been compacted into this mysterious, ominous being.

AMICA ID: MMA_.35.42
AMICA Library Year: 2000
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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